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Front Cover
Contents
List of Tables
Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on Translation
Introduction
Part I: Transmission: Greek, Old English and Latin
1 Paul of Aegina on Venomous Animals: An Introduction and Translation
2 The Beginnings of English Medicine: Confluences and Crosscurrents in Bald's Leechbook and Leechbook III
3 Early Medieval Recipe Collections: Continuity, Change and the Carolingian Context
Part II: Translation: Words into Practices
4 Charms in Late Antique and Early Medieval Medicine: Transmission and Transformation
5 Pharmaceutical Tools in the Early Middle Ages: Knowledge and Practice in Medical Recipes
Part III: Transformation: Texts and Later Adaptations
6 Gynaecology in the Priory? Contextualising the Gynaecological Fragments in London, British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A III
7 Use and Elaboration of Latin Sources in Later Anglo-Saxon England: The Peri didaxeon
8 Signs and Portents: Epidemic Disease and the Supernatural in Icelandic Sagas
Afterword
Audrey Meaney: An Appreciation
Audrey Meaney and the Study of Early Medieval Medicine
Memories of Audrey Meaney
A Bibliography of Audrey Meaney's Work
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
Health and Healing in the Middle Ages
Contents
List of Tables
Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on Translation
Introduction
Part I: Transmission: Greek, Old English and Latin
1 Paul of Aegina on Venomous Animals: An Introduction and Translation
2 The Beginnings of English Medicine: Confluences and Crosscurrents in Bald's Leechbook and Leechbook III
3 Early Medieval Recipe Collections: Continuity, Change and the Carolingian Context
Part II: Translation: Words into Practices
4 Charms in Late Antique and Early Medieval Medicine: Transmission and Transformation
5 Pharmaceutical Tools in the Early Middle Ages: Knowledge and Practice in Medical Recipes
Part III: Transformation: Texts and Later Adaptations
6 Gynaecology in the Priory? Contextualising the Gynaecological Fragments in London, British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A III
7 Use and Elaboration of Latin Sources in Later Anglo-Saxon England: The Peri didaxeon
8 Signs and Portents: Epidemic Disease and the Supernatural in Icelandic Sagas
Afterword
Audrey Meaney: An Appreciation
Audrey Meaney and the Study of Early Medieval Medicine
Memories of Audrey Meaney
A Bibliography of Audrey Meaney's Work
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
Health and Healing in the Middle Ages